{"id":1656,"date":"2005-10-01T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/01\/the-hand-cranked-laptop\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T17:17:00","slug":"the-hand-cranked-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-hand-cranked-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hand-Cranked Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Treehugger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2005\/09\/100_hand-crank.php\">a report<\/a> on an emerging development out of the MIT Media Lab: a $100 laptop computer that can be powered by a hand crank. Designer Nicholas Negroponte has bigger ideas than simply offering this as a consumer product:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Negroponte, the co-founder of the Lab, said MIT and his non-profit, <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.media.mit.edu\/\">One Laptop Per Child<\/a>, is in discussions with five countries &#8212; Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa &#8212; to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children. The idea is that governments will pay roughly $100 US for each laptop, and distribute them for free. The laptops will largely be powered by a side-mounted hand-crank, and can be juiced up with convential electric current or batteries, when they&#8217;re available. The proposed design of the machines calls for a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and an innovative dual-mode display that can be used in full-color mode, or in a black-and-white sunlight-readable mode. One display design being considered would also consume unconventionally low amounts of power and money; Negroponte said the technology can be used to produce displays that cost roughly 10 cents per square inch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, these laptops are wi-fi and cell phone enabled. While this is a very cool green development (Negroponte is shooting &#8220;near-zero power consumption&#8221; displays), the idea of providing such technology to children in poverty-stricken nations is truly revolutionary. Imagine being able to read blogs by these kids rather than counting on Sally Struthers commercials for infomation about third-world poverty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/laptop\" rel=\"tag\">laptop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/hand-cranked\" rel=\"tag\">hand-cranked<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/$100\" rel=\"tag\">$100<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/poverty\" rel=\"tag\">poverty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/children\" rel=\"tag\">children<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/empowerment\" rel=\"tag\">empowerment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/innovation\" rel=\"tag\">innovation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/MIT\" rel=\"tag\">MIT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Treehugger, a report on an emerging development out of the MIT Media Lab: a $100 laptop computer that can be powered by a hand crank. 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